"Forgive them, Father; they know not what they do."

I've always taken this statement by Christ to mean, "Forgive them for condemning me to death. They don't understand that I'm meant to help them."

Today, I realized how much further this statement reaches; "Forgive them for all of their sins. They don't even realize that they sin sometimes, but forgive them anyway. Just because they don't realize how much they've screwed up, they still need forgiveness." It goes beyond condemning Jesus to death; it spans across everything we do.

Maybe I was supposed to figure that out a long time ago, but it just hit me today. And that is really...awesome. Forgive me for my lack of eloquence, but it's true. How awesome that we get to be forgiven even though we don't deserve it or recognize that we've done something that merits forgiveness.

God is so cool!